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Kandavalli Pradeep Kumar

Kandavalli Pradeep Kumar

Quality Engineering Manager
Hyderabad

Summary

A practicing Test/Quality Engineering Manager with 15+ years of experience managing and scaling multidiscipline QA teams . Efficient quality professional bringing proven success in driving continuous improvement initiatives and Proactive Testing, Shift Left Testing, Negative testing, Early Time to Market, CI/CD initiatives . Ability to handle projects which understands ETL requirements and Maps it to Testing strategy. Conduct quality assessments and identify testing opportunities for continuous improvement to deliver end-to-end testing solutions with tangible outcomes.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
1
1
Language

Work History

Quality Engineering Manager

OPTUM-UnitedHealth Group
12.2011 - Current
  • End-to-end delivery management of the Testing/Quality practices and driving the continuous improvements on testing strategy.
  • Building and managing the SDET teams across multiple Scrum teams in LOB, including hiring, onboarding, coaching, guiding and mentoring team members.
  • Development of ATDD Test Automation Frameworks (Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)) for ETL Testing using Core Java and Cucumber
  • Planning and Developing Test Libraries and Test Automation Frameworks in Java.
  • Enhancing and designing Frameworks for ETL Automation using ATDD, Java, Cucumber, GIT, Maven,Azure DevOps and CI/CD.
  • DWH – Data Warehousing, ETL Testing, Database (DB) Testing, Business Intelligence (BI) Testing, Product Testing and Manual Testing.
  • Deep dive understanding of ETL requirements and Mapping it to Testing strategy.
  • Data Migration Testing - from DB2 On-Premise to MS SQL Server Azure Cloud.
  • Continued evaluation of test cases/scenarios for inclusion in Shift-Left Testing , Regression Testing , test coverage and Test automation of newly implemented functionality and development of tools to enable QA efficiencies.
  • Proactive Testing, Negative testing, Early Time to Market, CI/CD initiatives.
  • Continuous Testing: Integration of testing into the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to ensure that testing is an integral part of the software delivery process. This helps in achieving faster and more reliable releases.
  • Effective Test Planning and Developing Test Strategies/Test Approaches . Implementing and Managing Test Automation Scripts to ensure that products meets the required specifications for Quality.
  • Coordinates Product testing life Cycle . Proven track record in designing, implementing, executing and supervising an E2E - end-to-end testing approach.
  • Implement organization-wide governance including Testing Standard, Quality/Test Metrics, Patch Testing Approach, Testing of Release Management, Software testing,Functional testing, System testing,Integration testing, Test automation using Java and Selenium, Performance.Testing , etc.
  • Working with development, build and test integration tooling including Git.
  • Managing/Maintaining the Test Environment for Agile Testing and Continuous Integration/Continuous Testing.
  • Back up Scrum Master: Organizing Sprint planning meetings , which includes reviewing the Product Backlog and collaborating with the Product Owner and the Core Team to identify user stories to be included in the next Sprint.
  • Identifying gaps in testing activities and developing solutions.

Associate Quality Engineering Manager

OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
03.2019 - 03.2023
  • Responsible for Defining QA Strategy, Approach and Execution in development projects.
  • Developed comprehensive test plans and workforce breakdown structures for complete systems.
  • Evaluated project requirements to identify and mitigate risks.
  • Responsible for Leading the projects and directing the QA teams.
  • Provide leadership and technical expertise within Test Automation and Quality Assurance.
  • Creation of ATDD Automation Framework with Java.
  • Implementation of ETL/BI/DHW-DataWarehousing Testing/ Test Automation.
  • Extensive Testing experience in delivering large and complex transformation testing engagements
  • ETL Analytics and Data Reporting Automation.
  • In-Sprint Automation and Azure DevOps/CI-CD adoption .
  • T est Management/Test Coordination in all phases, types and levels of testing.
  • Coordinating the entire Test life cycle from Test design till Test reporting and supporting User acceptance testing (UAT).

Test Lead

OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
09.2015 - 03.2019
  • Leading the Complete BI/DWH/ETL QA Project Delivery for both Onshore and Offshore.
  • Mentoring/Managing the QA team members across geographies .
  • Successfully able to Offshore the delivery ownership of BI/DWH/EDW/ETL QA Projects from Brazil to India for AMIL client.
  • Demand Vs Capacity Planning and Resource Project Planning.
  • Involvement in Project Planning, Execution, Documenting and Reporting .
  • Responsible for drafting Weekly Reports, Daily Reports, Metrics/KPIs, Test summary reports and coordinate with the senior management.
  • Effective usage of the resources across the project and assigning the tasks and leading the team towards success.
  • Knowledge Transition, Understanding the Applications and creating documentation in English ( Knowledge Management ).
  • Generating leads by providing estimations of the projects and ensuring set targets are achieved.
  • Accountable for carrying out detailed analysis and issue clarification with both Development and Client teams.
  • Mentoring and Coordinating with the team and resolving key bottleneck issues.
  • Finding the bugs & logging the defects and reporting the data accordingly.

Sr. IT Quality Analyst

OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
12.2011 - 03.2014
  • Responsible for Defining QA Strategy, Approach and Execution.
  • Responsible for Leading the projects and directing the QA teams for efficient Test execution.
  • Provide leadership and technical expertise with ETL Testing .
  • Implementation of ETL/BI/DHW-DataWarehousing Testing/ Test Strategies
  • ETL Analytics and Data Reporting Testing .
  • Demand Vs Capacity Planning and Resource Project Planning.
  • Responsible for effective Quality assurance,
    Defect tracking and Test documentation.

Test Engineer

Infosys Limited
05.2008 - 12.2011
  • Leading the Complete BI/DWH/ETL QA Project Delivery
  • Created comprehensive test plans, test scripts , and use cases to support testing objectives.
  • Worked in Mortgage Domain as a T est Module Lead and responsible for effective usage of the resources across the project and assigning the work and leading the team.
  • Coordinated with the BAs/SAs for the Functional and Technical Requirements Walkthrough.
  • Accountable for carrying out detailed analysis and issue clarification with both Development and BA Teams.
  • Estimations of the projects and ensuring set targets are achieved.
  • Responsible for drafting Weekly Reports, Daily Reports, Metrics/KPIs, Test summary reports and coordinate with the senior management.
  • Responsible for mentoring and providing knowledge transfer to new team members.
  • Mentoring and coordinating with the team and resolving key bottleneck issues.
  • Test Execution and Finding and logging the defects and reporting the data accordingly.
  • Researched new developments in testing methods and equipment and made recommendations to improve testing procedures.
  • Developed comprehensive test plans and workforce breakdown structures for complete systems.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (ECE - Electronics And Communications) -

ANITS - Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology And Sciences - Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

Skills

ETL/Database Testing

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Accomplishments

  • Received the ALL STAR award from the CEO of UnitedHealth Group in 2016
  • Engineering Talent Transformation Award and SDET Certification from UnitedHealth Group/OPTUM
  • Implemented multiple Bright Ideas YOY for Cost Avoidance .
  • Leaders Involving me in starting new ETL projects from Scratch to start and stabilize the projects.
  • Successfully able to Offshore the delivery ownership of BI/DWH/EDW/ETL QA Projects from Brazil to India for AMIL client
  • 2 times onshore travel to Brazil, South America
  • Learnt and applied Portuguese Language within the Brazilian Projects and in Brazil, South America
  • Certified in various External Certifications.
  • Received numerous Awards throughout the career
  • Exceeded Expectations and Outstanding Expectations Performance Ratings

External Certifications

  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals – AZ 900 - (Certificate ID I008-1640)
  • Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals – DP 900 - (Certificate ID I217-4170)
  • SAFe 4 Agilist –Scaled Agile, Inc (Certificate ID 97288946-4479)
  • Scrum.org - Professional Scrum Master 1 (PSM 1)
  • AHM 250 – American Health Care Domain Certification
  • ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundational Level (Certificate ID 0050522)
  • DevOps Professional – DevOps Union (Certificate ID 101295)

Timeline

Associate Quality Engineering Manager

OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
03.2019 - 03.2023

Test Lead

OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
09.2015 - 03.2019

Quality Engineering Manager

OPTUM-UnitedHealth Group
12.2011 - Current

Sr. IT Quality Analyst

OPTUM - UnitedHealth Group
12.2011 - 03.2014

Test Engineer

Infosys Limited
05.2008 - 12.2011

Bachelor of Engineering (ECE - Electronics And Communications) -

ANITS - Anil Neerukonda Institute of Technology And Sciences - Andhra University, Visakhapatnam

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